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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias

Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk,…

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

One sung of thee who left the tale untold

One sung of thee who left the tale untold
One sung of thee who left the tale untold,
Like the false dawns which perish in the bursting;
Like empty cups of wrou…

420
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, When Soft Voices Die

Music, When Soft Voices Die
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken. <…

351
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Night

Night
SWIFTLY walk o'er the western wave,
Spirit of Night!
Out of the misty eastern cave,--
Where, all the long and lone daylight,
Thou wovest drea…

469
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc
(Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni)

The everlasting universe of things
Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,
Now dark…

645
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines: The cold earth slept below

Lines: The cold earth slept below
The cold earth slept below;
Above the cold sky shone;
And all around,
With a chilling sound,
From caves of ice an…

522
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who Live

Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who Live
Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,
And it but mim…

491
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills

Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills
Many a green isle needs must be
In the deep wide sea of Misery,
Or the mariner, worn and wan,
Never thus could voy…

518
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats through unseen among us, -- visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Invocation

Invocation
Rarely, rarely, comest thou,
Spirit of Delight!
Wherefore hast thou left me now
Many a day and night?
Many a weary night and day
'…

534
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

From the Arabic, an Imitation

From the Arabic, an Imitation
MY faint spirit was sitting in the light
Of thy looks, my love;
It panted for thee like the hind at noon
For the brooks, my…

441
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hellas

Hellas
THE world's great age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn;
Heaven smiles, and f…

543
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Feelings Of A Republican On The Fall Of Bonaparte

Feelings Of A Republican On The Fall Of Bonaparte
I hated thee, fallen tyrant! I did groan
To think that a most unambitious slave,
Like thou, shouldst dance an…

510
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

fragment: To The Moon

fragment: To The Moon
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing Heaven, and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a differ…

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Chorus from Hellas

Chorus from Hellas
The world`s great age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn:
Heaven s…

544
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

English In

English In
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,--
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who
Through public scorn,--mud from a muddy spring,--

500
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Autumn: A Dirge

Autumn: A Dirge
The warm sun is falling, the bleak wind is wailing,
The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying,
And the Year
On the earth is…

451
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Art Thou Pale For Weariness

Art Thou Pale For Weariness
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a d…

522
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale

And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale
And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane

524
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude

Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood!
If our great Mother has imbued my soul
With aught of natural piety to feel
Yo…

445
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire

A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire
THE wind has swept from the wide atmosphere
Each vapour that obscured the sunset's ray,
And pallid Eveni…

518
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Adonais

Adonais
I weep for Adonais -he is dead!
O, weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!
And thou, sad Hour, selected…

712
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar

We Wear the Mask

We Wear the Mask
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,--
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding…

660
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Lament

A Lament
O World! O Life! O Time!
On whose last steps I climb,
Trembling at that where I had stood before;
When will return the glory of your prime?

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